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Memory leaks in msf3
From: version5 at gmail.com (nnp)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 19:56:53 +0000
Hey, When running msf3 using db_nmap or db_autopwn with large inputs has anyone else gotten out of memory errors? I don't know ruby so I have no idea what the story with garbage collection and memory leaks is but here is the error. msf > db_create newDB [-] Error while running command db_create: Cannot allocate memory Call stack: /home/meta/framework3/plugins/db_postgres.rb:114:in `system' /home/meta/framework3/plugins/db_postgres.rb:114:in `cmd_db_create' ./lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:229:in `send' ./lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:229:in `run_command' ./lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:196:in `run_single' ./lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:191:in `each' ./lib/rex/ui/text/dispatcher_shell.rb:191:in `run_single' ./lib/rex/ui/text/shell.rb:118:in `run' ./msfconsole:63 That is after running db_autopwn with about 1500 exploits (that seems to be about the limit for me with 512MB of memory) Here is the output of free at the same time free at metasploit:~/temp$ free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 504 475 28 0 7 12 -/+ buffers/cache: 456 48 Swap: 133 62 70 As I said, I don't know ruby so I can't tell if this is a msf3 problem or a ruby one. I am using ruby 1.8.5 by the way. Thanks, NNP -- http://silenthack.co.uk
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